Like most others, I use SolrJ and bind my beans with @Field annotations to read responses from Solr. For highlighting these properties in my bean, I always write a separate piece - Get the list of highlights from response and then use the Map<fieldName, List<highlights>> to put them back in my original bean.
This evening, I tried creating an @Highlight annotation and modified the DocumentObjectBinder to understand this attribute (with a bunch of other properties). This is how it works: You can annotate your beans with @Highlight as underneath. class MyBean{ @Field @Highlight String name; @Field ("solr_category_field_name") List<String> categories; @Highlight ("solr_category_field_name") List<String> highlightedCategories @Field float score; ... } and use QueryResponse#getBeans(MyBean.class) to achieve both - object binding as well as highlighting. I was wondering if this can be of help to most users or not. Can this be a possible enhancement in DocumentObjectBinder? If yes, I can write a patch. Cheers Avlesh